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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Imaginative Writing"”.
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Imaginative writing of deaf children
This thesis explores the issue of imaginative writing of deaf children. Thirty deaf children aged 9-11 years were recruited form Hearing Impaired Units and mainstream schools. Thirty hearing children were matched on academic performance (according to teachers) and chronological age and recruited …
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Writing Indigenous Identity in Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad's Polynesian and Malay Archipelago Novels
… thesis of this paper is that cross-cultural writing can be done with the right methods of communication, such as engaging narrator and education—or simply sensitive, imaginative writing. Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad’s five books set in the Polynesian and Malay Archipelagos—<em>Typee …
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Actor-Directors: The Working Lives of Prison Governors
… and of well-being. I use literary collage and imaginative writing to present and interpret interview material together with self interviews and reflection on my experiences as a Ph.D. researcher, enabling me to show how my research developed and how I have developed as a researcher. In …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… in the wake of civil war and revolution produced imaginative writing defined by sharp oppositions, by clarity and exactness, by the concrete and not the metaphorical, or so literary history has often told us. "The Poetics of Liminality" tells a different story. By calling attention to themes and …
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Reading and Writing with a Tree: Practising ‘Nature Writing’ as Enquiry
This thesis reframes, or reforms, ‘nature writing’ (‘Nature Writing Reformed’) through the practical and theoretical recombination of human, tree, and page. Understandings of ‘writing’, ‘nature’, and their phrasal relation in ‘nature writing’, are explored through a sustained enquiry into the …
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Creative Writing in the Threshold Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor
Creative Writing in the ȋreshold: Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor is a thesis that combines academic and creative writing to investigate narratives by tutors in Ibero-American academic institutions. Accompanying my research is a handmade …
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The Countenance Divine & 'nothing more important than trifles': critical reflections on The Countenance Divine
… the key to the coming apocalypse. This Creative Writing PhD comprises a complete novel (86,495 words) and a critical commentary (32,269 words), plus appendices (c. 10,000 words). The Countenance Divine is an original work of prose fiction composed of four parallel narratives, each grounded in …
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
… of the grotesque body. Contemporary women's writings still employ similar strategies, though more direct and effective. From the beginning of the twentieth century and through the development of consumer society, more bodies are regarded as "grotesque" but there are also cultural exchanges in …
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Representations of Social Media and Unreliable Narration in Relation to Identity Construction in Young Adult Fiction
… two parts: research and a sample of creative writing from the novel, Snap. The creative writing has evolved over the course of the project, in conjunction with the research undertaken.
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The Art of the Bodge: Understanding bodging as a methodology when working with themes of sexual violence in the mediums of sculpture and writing
… violence expressed through autobiographical writing and sculptures. These experiences are explored in Headstone, a collection of writing that draws on memories that seem only half-real. Extending from this reflective writing practice, sculptural works respond to insitutional hierarchies and …
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From denotation to detonation : aestheticization, memory and emphathic readings in trauma narratives
… human experiences through modes of fictional writing. I am essentially looking into the renderings of unspeakable subject matter that occupies a liminal space in language's functioning. I aim to explore the potentialities of the most irredeemably strange or seemingly incoherent experiences of …
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Conflict and Reconciliation: Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Native American Literature by Women
… becoming family members. I ultimately argue that imaginative writing makes space for dialogues of reconciliation that are otherwise stifled in the midst of complex and historically tense cultural and socioeconomic circumstances. Together, these writers perform an act of reconciliation that is …
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Joined Up Writers: How can the novel be a vehicle for community participation?
… of introducing digital methods to a community writing practice that is traditionally non-digital? The thesis defines the community novel in the context of the community arts movement in the UK (Owen Kelly 2023, François Matarasso 2021, for example). It argues for it as a culturally democratic …
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Utopoly - A Utopian Research Method
This thesis is an account of Utopoly, a new utopian research method that incorporates a game. It is the result of research provoked by a question concerning the validity of using games in the field of utopian studies. My research set out to develop methods that would complement utopian literary …
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Invisible Mathematics in Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili
… literature and science, pertinent to Calvino's writing. The purpose is to unveil a "hidden math" which from the perspective of this study is an intrinsic tool in Calvino's writing process of Città. As a versatile writer, Calvino manages to use mathematics in such subtle ways that it may not be …
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Die Künstlerproblematik im Naturalismus dargestellt an Papa Hamlet von Arno Holz und Johannes Schlaf
… artistic endeavour and recognition of creative imaginative writing at a time of revolutionary scientific and industrial activity, brings into focus the re-evaluation of the artist during intense economic development. The intellectual crisis of the artist in Germany, 1870-1895, is strongly …
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I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs of Where: Contemporary Alt-folksong and Articulations of Place
… listened research, with a ‘diarist’ mode of writing linking audio and text. Songs are generated through engagement with these research methods, and through field trips and recordings, influencing the directions of page-based enquiry. Early chapters draw on theories of Popular Music (Moore …
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A Companion Object: Materialising a multispecies sensibility through creative practice in an ecological crisis
… creative practice. Outputs include creative writing, moving image, collaboration and textile works. Citizen-science provides a theoretical and methodological basis from which to extend craft and visual arts practice towards explicitly ecological forms of expression. Creative practice …
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The problem of faith and the self: the interplay between literary art, apologetics and hermeneutics in C.S. Lewis's religious narratives
… narratives created by twofold enterprise—imaginative writing and Christian apologetics, this thesis aims to undertake a comprehensive reception of Lewis’s works by considering carefully the inter-mixture of literary art and Christian apologetics within the texts and the relevance of the …
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Gay Comics and Queer Male Comics in America: History, Conventions and Challenges
This thesis is focused on American gay male comics and queer alternative comics. I argue that the field of gay male comics' production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and reinforce a …
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